Injury Response & Reporting
How to Identify Early Indicators of Creeping Catastrophic Claims
Catch the expensive claim before it becomes one
Playbook content
Introduction
- PDFPlaybook outlineDownload · PDF
- Valuable Impact on Financial Dollars and Individual LivesVideo · 4:21
Section 1
- The Cost and Cause of Creeping Catastrophic ClaimsVideo · 24:39
- Protocol check 1Pass at 70%
Section 2
- Informal Claim Screen TechniquesVideo · 23:40
- Protocol check 2Pass at 70%
Section 3
- Formal Claim Screen TechniquesVideo · 10:21
- Protocol check 3Pass at 70%
About this playbook
A small number of claims drive most of the cost in a workers' comp program, and much of that cost is avoidable. This playbook shows how to quantify the wasted dollars on your loss run, the simple characteristics that mark a claim at risk, the informal and formal screens that find those claims early, and how to bring the claims team into the process.
You will be able to
- Quantify the wasted claim dollars on your loss run
- Recognize the simple characteristics of a claim at risk
- Screen claims early with informal and formal techniques
- Bring the claims handling team on board with screening
- Act quickly when an early indicator claim is identified